Ondřej Kúdela
Ondřej Kúdela (; born 26 March 1987) is a Czech professional footballer who plays as a centre-back. He previously played for Slovácko, Sparta Prague, Mlada Boleslav, Slovan Liberec, and Slavia Prague. Kúdela also had loan spells at Kladno and Kazakh club FC Ordabasy. Club career Kúdela came up through the youth system at Slovácko and made his debut appearance for the first team in 2005. In 2009, Kúdela was signed by Mladá Boleslav as a replacement for the outgoing Jan Rajnoch. He remained at the club for eight seasons, except for a half-year loan spell at Kazakh side Ordabasy in 2014. He was part of the Mladá Boleslav team that won the 2010–11 and 2015–16 Czech Cups, coming off as a substitute at the eighth minute of the former final. In January 2017, Kúdela signed a contract with Slovan Liberec for two-and-a-half years. In 2018, Kúdela transferred to Slavia Prague along with head coach Jindřich Trpišovský. With the club, he won a total of three l ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Czech Republic National Football Team
The Czech Republic national football team (), recognised by FIFA as Czechia, represents the Czech Republic in men's international Association football, football. The team is controlled by the Football Association of the Czech Republic (FAČR). Historically, the team participated in FIFA and UEFA competitions as Kingdom of Bohemia, Bohemia and Czechoslovakia. Following the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, the first international competition of the Czech Republic was UEFA Euro 1996, where they finished runners-up. They have taken part at every European Championship since. Following the separation, they have featured at one FIFA World Cup, the 2006 FIFA World Cup, 2006 tournament. History 1990s When Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the Czech Republic team was formed. They played their first friendly match away to Turkey national football team, Turkey on 23 February 1994. The newly formed team played their first home game in Ostrava, against Lithuania nati ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Centre-back
In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring. Defenders fall into four main categories: centre-backs, full-backs, sweepers, and wing-backs. The centre-back and full-back positions are most common in modern formations. The sweeper and wing-back roles are more specialised, often limited to certain formations dependent on the manager's style of play and tactics. Centre-back The centre-back (also known as a central defender or centre-half, as the modern role of the centre-back arose from the centre-half position) defends in the area directly in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players, particularly centre-forwards, from scoring. Centre-backs accomplish this by blocking shots, tackling, intercepting passes, contesting headers and marking forwards to discourage the opposing team from passing to them. Centre-backs are often tall and positioned ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2020–21 UEFA Europa League
The 2020–21 UEFA Europa League was the 50th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 12th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League. Villarreal defeated Manchester United in the final, played at the Stadion Gdańsk in Gdańsk, Poland, 11–10 on penalties following a 1–1 draw after extra time, winning the competition for the first time in club history. Villarreal thus automatically qualified for the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League group stage and earned the right to play in the 2021 UEFA Super Cup. The stadium was originally appointed to host the 2020 UEFA Europa League Final, but this was moved due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe in 2020. As the title holders of the Europa League, Sevilla qualified for the 2020–21 UEFA Champions League, although they had already qualified before the final through their league performance. They were unable to defend their title as they advanced to the Champio ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Glen Kamara
Glen Adjei Kamara (born 28 October 1995) is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Saudi Pro League club Al Shabab, on loan from Ligue 1 club Rennes, and the Finland national team. He began his senior career at Arsenal, where he made one substitute appearance in the Football League Cup and was loaned to Southend United and Colchester United. After 18 months at Dundee, he joined fellow Scottish Premiership side Rangers for £50,000. He made the PFA Scotland Team of the Year when they won the league title in 2020–21. In late August 2023 it was announced that he would be leaving Rangers to join Leeds United in the EFL Championship. After a successful season with Leeds, Kamara joined French side Rennes for a €10 million fee. Six months later, he signed for Al-Shabab on loan. Kamara made his senior international debut for Finland in 2017. He was named in their squad for UEFA Euro 2020. In 2022, he was recognized as Finnish Footballer of the Year by th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rangers F
A ranger is typically someone in a law enforcement or military/paramilitary role specializing in patrolling a given territory, called "ranging" or "scouting". The term most often refers to: * Park ranger or forest ranger, a person charged with protecting and preserving protected parklands and forests. ** National Park Service ranger, an employee of the National Park Service ** U.S. Forest Service ranger, an employee of the United States Forest Service ** Ranger of Windsor Great Park, a ceremonial office of the United Kingdom ** Includes the Keepers of Epping Forest who are charged to Range about the Forest in their duties. Ranger or Rangers may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Publications * Ranger's Apprentice, a series of novels by John Flanagan * '' Ranger Rick'', a children's nature magazine published by the United States National Wildlife Federation * ''Ranger'' (magazine), a former British comic magazine Fictional entities * Rangers (comics), a Marvel Comics sup ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Brazil National Football Team
The Brazil national football team (), nicknamed ''Seleção Canarinho'' ("Canary Squad", after their bright yellow jersey), represents Brazil in men's international Association football, football and is administered by the Brazilian Football Confederation, Confederação Brasileira de Futebol (), the governing body of football in Brazil. It has been a member of FIFA since 1923 and a founding member of CONMEBOL since 1916. It was also a member of Panamerican Championship#Panamerican Football Confederation, PFC, the unified confederation of the Americas from 1946 to 1961. Brazil is the most successful national team in the FIFA World Cup, being crowned winner five times: 1958 FIFA World Cup, 1958, 1962 FIFA World Cup, 1962, 1970 FIFA World Cup, 1970, 1994 FIFA World Cup, 1994 and 2002 FIFA World Cup, 2002. The ''Seleção'' also has the best overall performance in the World Cup competition, both in proportional and absolute terms, with a record of 76 victories in 114 matches played ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Exhibition Match
An exhibition game (also known as a friendly, scrimmage, demonstration, training match, pre-season game, warmup match, or preparation match, depending at least in part on the sport) is a sporting event whose prize money and impact on the player's or the team's rankings is either zero or otherwise greatly reduced. Exhibition games often serve as "warm-up matches", particularly in many team sports where these games help coaches and managers select and condition players, before the competitive matches of a league season or tournament. If the players usually play in different teams in other leagues, exhibition games offer an opportunity for the players to learn to work with each other. The games can be held between separate teams or between parts of the same team. An exhibition game may also be used to settle a challenge, to provide professional entertainment, to promote the sport, to commemorate an anniversary or a famous player, or to raise money for charities. Several sports le ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bali United F
Bali (English:; Balinese language, Balinese: ) is a Provinces of Indonesia, province of Indonesia and the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands. East of Java and west of Lombok, the province includes the island of Bali and a few smaller offshore islands, notably Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan, and Nusa Ceningan to the southeast. The provincial capital, Denpasar, is the List of Indonesian cities by population, most populous city in the Lesser Sunda Islands and the second-largest, after Makassar, in Eastern Indonesia. Denpasar metropolitan area is the extended metropolitan area around Denpasar. The upland town of Ubud in Greater Denpasar is considered Bali's cultural centre. The province is Indonesia's main tourist destination, with a significant rise in Tourism in Bali, tourism since the 1980s, and becoming an Indonesian area of overtourism. Tourism-related business makes up 80% of the Bali economy. Bali is the only Hinduism in Indonesia, Hindu-majority province in Indonesia, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Liga 1 (Indonesia)
Liga 1 (), officially known as BRI Liga 1 for sponsorship reasons, is the men's top professional football division of the Indonesian football league system. Administered by PT Liga Indonesia Baru (), Liga 1 is contested by 18 clubs and operates on a system of promotion and relegation with Liga 2. Top-flight professional league in Indonesia started from the 2008–09 season onwards, initially under the name Indonesia Super League until 2015. Before PSSI formed and organized the Indonesian Super League as the first professional football league in Indonesia, the previous top-level competition title in Indonesia was the Liga Indonesia Premier Division from 1994–95 to 2007–08. Prior to the 2008 reforms, the national competitions used a tournament format. Liga 1, which started in 2017, is the latest rebranding of the league. Forty-three clubs have competed in the top-tier league of Indonesian football since the inception of the Indonesia Super League in 2008. Eight have won ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jindřich Trpišovský
Jindřich Trpišovský (born 27 February 1976) is a Czech football manager who is currently the manager of Slavia Prague. He has won four Czech First League and four Czech Cup with them. Playing career During his playing career, Trpišovský played for Čechie Karlín as a goalkeeper. At the age of 12, Trpišovský was discouraged from playing football due to knee problems, before returning to the sport at the age of 17. Management career At the age of 20, Trpišovský began coaching at Čechie Karlín's youth teams, combining coaching with working at the Esplanade Hotel in Prague. Trpišovský later joined Bohemians 1905 and Sparta Prague as a youth coach, before joining Xaverov as an assistant. In 2011, Trpišovský was named as manager of SK Horní Měcholupy. At the same time, Trpišovský was working at Czech Second League side Viktoria Žižkov as assistant, due to Žižkov being Horní Měcholupy's parent club. In 2013, Trpišovský became manager of Žižkov. In July 2 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2015–16 Czech Cup
The 2015–16 Czech Cup, known as the MOL Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the 23nd season of the annual knockout association football, football tournament of the Czech Republic. It began with the preliminary round on 18 July 2015 and ended with the final on 18 May 2016. As winners of the cup, FK Mladá Boleslav gained the right to play in the third qualifying round of the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League. Preliminary round The preliminary round ties were scheduled for 18 – 19 July 2015. 66 teams competed in this round, all from level 4 or below of the Czech league system. , - !colspan="3" style="background:#ccccff;", 18 July 2015 , - !colspan="3" style="background:#ccccff;", 19 July 2015 First round The first round ties were scheduled for 24 – 30 July 2015. , - !colspan="3" style="background:#ccccff;", 24 July 2015 , - !colspan="3" style="background:#ccccff;", 25 July 2015 , - !colspan="3" style="background ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2010–11 Czech Cup
The 2010–11 Czech Cup was the 18th edition of the annual football knockout tournament organized by the Czech Football Association of the Czech Republic. It began on 18 July 2010 with the preliminary round and ended with the final on 25 May 2011. Mladá Boleslav prevailed in Stadion v Jiráskově ulici, Jihlava at the 25 May 2011 Cupdefeating Sigma Olomouc, under a penalty score of 4–3. 5,430 in attendance. Teams Preliminary round The Preliminary round took place on 18 July 2010. First round The First round was played on 23, 24 and 25 July 2010. The match between FC Přední Kopanina and FC Chomutov was postponed and played on 31 July 2010. Second round The main date for second round matches was 1 September 2010. Third round The Third round was played on 22 September 2010. Fourth round The first legs of the fourth round were played on 27 October 2010, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |